We unexpectedly got a clear patch of sky last night – and no Moon – but of course such luck has to be tempered 🙂 Started up the mini-WASP array around 10:30 p.m. and decided to start with some Polar … Continue reading
Today Tom How fitted and ran a fully automated dome rotation system to the Pulsar Observatories mini-WASP dome. You can see a video of the system in operation HERE. You will see the telescope array deliberately slewed using the joystick … Continue reading
This is the view from my study on this blistering hot Wednesday – it’s now coming up to 5:00 p.m. and it’s still too hot to do anything sensible indoors or outdoors. Managed to fit a solid-state magnetic compass in … Continue reading
Tom How just pointed something out to me that came as a bit of a shock. The mini-WASP project has been over 4 years in the making – to be precise, my first NFO post on the mini-WASP array was … Continue reading
On this grey, murky, rainy day I thought I’d take a picture of something bright in the garden – a pair of Keck domes now reside at the New Forest Observatory 🙂
This is how the twin observatories are positioned in the garden at the New Forest Observatory.
Spent today (between the showers) fitting the all Aluminium pier to the concrete support base. Contrary to what it looks like in the photo – the top of the pier is perfectly flat and horizontal.
Today the decking experts from “The Last Post” arrived first thing to get on with the octagonal deck build. They came armed with the most formidable piece of sawing kit I’ve seen – but boy does it cope with the … Continue reading
I have finally found someone that will build the 12 foot diameter octagonal wooden deck for the mini-WASP array at a price that doesn’t require me to take out a second mortgage. Clearly the economic climate isn’t so bad that … Continue reading
Today I removed the Sky 90 from the C11 and replaced it with a little Celestron refractor that I use as a guide scope. The Hyperstar III has once again been fitted to the C11 for some phenomenally fast (f#2) … Continue reading
